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I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you.
- 2 Timothy 1:5 (NRSV)

As a teenager, I was in a youth service group. The group was made up of young people from 10 churches within a radius of 60 km (37 miles). Years later, we all still serve the Lord with our respective abilities. We keep working to learn and serve with faith....

Today's Prayer

Our Father in heaven, thank you for giving us a chance to do your work. Strengthen us to keep serving you. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

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2 Timothy 1:3-18

3 I’m grateful to God, whom I serve with a good conscience as my ancestors did. I constantly remember you in my prayers day and night.4 When I remember your tears, I long to see you so that I can be filled with happiness.5 I’m reminded of your authentic faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice. I’m sure that this faith is also inside you.6 Because of this, I’m reminding you to revive God’s gift that is in you through the laying on of my hands.7 God didn’t give us a spirit that is timid but one that is powerful, loving, and self-controlled.8 So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about the Lord or of me, his prisoner. Instead, share the suffering for the good news, depending on God’s power.9 God is the one who saved and called us with a holy calling. This wasn’t based on what we have done, but it was based on his own purpose and grace that he gave us in Christ Jesus before time began.10 Now his grace is revealed through the appearance of our savior, Christ Jesus. He destroyed death and brought life and immortality into clear focus through the good news.11 I was appointed a messenger, apostle, and teacher of this good news.12 This is also why I’m suffering the way I do, but I’m not ashamed. I know the one in whom I’ve placed my trust. I’m convinced that God is powerful enough to protect what he has placed in my trust until that day.13 Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you heard from me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.14 Protect this good thing that has been placed in your trust through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.15 You know that everyone in Asia has turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.16 May the Lord show mercy to Onesiphorus’ household, because he supported me many times and he wasn’t ashamed of my imprisonment.17 After I arrived in Rome, he quickly looked for me and found me.18 May the Lord allow him to find his mercy on that day (and you know very well how much he served me in Ephesus).

The Holy Service of Motherhood

"When I became a parent, I struggled to find God within the chaotic world where I now lived. I was used to contemplative prayer, to silence and service and listening for God’s still, small voice in quiet, hidden spaces. Suddenly none of my life felt quiet or hidden – it was all loud, messy, and exposed." Discover more.

—Lauren Burdette

Author of This Life That Is Ours: Motherhood As Spiritual Practice (Upper Room Books, 2019).